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Community Water System · PWS CO0145810

West Grand Valley WA

Operator location Rocky Ford, Colorado - 68% of 224 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 100 served per SDWIS.

100
People served (this PWS)
224
EPA violations (this PWS)
153
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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West Grand Valley WA standing, high SDWIS violation third

68% of 224 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 68% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

West Grand Valley WA sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (224), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (100; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 68% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

224
Total EPA violations on record
68%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
100
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
37
County
Otero
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
153
Monitoring Violations
38
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 118 2025
Public Notice Other 22 2025
Bromate MCL 16 2015
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 15 2024
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 11 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2021
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2011
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2012
Bromate MR 3 2016
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2023
TTHM MR 3 2023
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 3 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 3 2023
E. COLI MR 3 2024
Combined Uranium MR 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

West Grand Valley WA has 224 recorded EPA violations, 87% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 68% of this system's own violations are health-based (153 of 224), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

224 Higher than most more violations than 87% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on West Grand Valley WA

153 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0145810.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control

Nationwide peers

224 violations · 100 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with West Grand Valley WA

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Colorado compares on the same EPA violation measures. Colorado systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater